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An experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot

Experimental F-16 fighter jet takes Air Force secretary on a history-making flight controlled by AI, not a human pilot

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this weekend

The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly

A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered

Universal Music Group has signed a deal for some top artists to reappear on the popular platform.

China launches the Chang'e-6 lunar probe on a mission to return samples from the less-explored far side of the moon

China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side

Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer’s deadly wildfire

Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset

A study by the nonprofit Brookings Institution says Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election

An administrative law judge has ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law by making certain anti-union comments during media interviews two years ago

Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant

The rate of businesses in the U.S. using AI is still relatively small but growing rapidly

Researchers will use a PetPace wearable health tracker to measure dogs’ physiological responses leading up to an earthquake.

Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, but dogs could help bridge the gap.

Broadband internet are disrupted in many parts of Nepal as Indian vendors from whom most Nepali private operators source the bandwidth stopped providing the services because of payment defaults

The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling competition and innovation has repeatedly indicated he believes it would be difficult for a formidable rival search engine to emerge

A bipartisan group of senators wants restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by the Transportation Security Administration

Snapchat Plus subscribers are given a 5-minute window to rephrase messages or make changes to their chats.

Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, will be returning to TikTok as the two parties have struck a new licensing agreement following an approximately three-month long dispute

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI

Toothbrushes used to be simple, powered only by your hand so they never broke down

A convicted sex offender is asking the Norwegian Supreme Court to declare social media access is a human right

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia

African climate-tech startups are increasingly raising money from private sources, but while those funds for climate solutions are growing, a huge gap remains in meeting the actual financial needs for climate action in Africa

Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space

Gamers’ appetites for immersive sports video games have not changed much since the heyday of EA Sports' college football

A staffing company that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and a whistleblower

Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds

It was a Texas veterinarian who collected samples from dairy farms that confirmed the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu in cattle for the first time

Former President Donald Trump has secured another $1.6 billion worth of shares in Trump Media

Members of Dave & Buster’s loyalty program will be able to place bets against their competitors on skee ball, hot shots and other arcade games.

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of protest

Chinese scientist who published COVID-19 virus sequence is allowed back in his lab after days of sit-in protest

A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit asserting novel claims about the roles of corporate leaders and arguing that the loyalties of Meta directors and company founder Mark Zuckerberg should not lie exclusively with the social media giant

A Delaware judge has granted a request by attorneys for Donald Trump and Trump Media & Technology Group, parent company of his Truth Social platform, to slow down a merger-related lawsuit filed by two cofounders of the company

Amazon has reported strong results for the first quarter

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone

Millions of families will face bigger internet bills starting in May because a federal broadband subsidy program is set to expire

Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the internet company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back

A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election

A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots

Authorities say lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year

The Federal Communications Commission has leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data without their consent

A Finnish court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than six years in prison for hacking thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients over the sensitive data

The Federal Communications Commission says T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon illegally sold the location data of customers.

A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station

The European Union says it’s investigating Facebook and Instagram for suspected violations of the bloc’s digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections

The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility